"African, winning in straight sets and the third set without losing a game. At the semifinal, he faced Federer again, where he lost in straights. Wawrinka represented Switzerland in the 2015 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs, facing against Dutchman Thiemo de Bakker in the first singles rubber. After being 1-2 sets down, Warwinka was able to come back and win the next two sets to win the match. Switzerland eventually won the tie at the fourth rubber. Wawrinka started the indoor season at the 2015 Moselle Open, where he defeated Dustin Brown in three sets. However, Wawrinka gave a walkover"
"in his career. Prior to the 2014 French Open, he requested and the ATP granted a formal change in his name from ""Stanislas Wawrinka"" to ""Stan Wawrinka"", stating that he plans to use the abbreviated name in tournament draws and press conferences. Wawrinka started playing tennis at the age of eight, and he played tennis once a week until he was 11 years old, when he started practice three times a week. Wawrinka stopped attending regular schooling at age 15 to focus full-time on tennis. However, he continued his schooling by distance education with the French organization CNED, which offered"
"Wawrinka also won a gold medal partnering Roger Federer in men's doubles for Switzerland in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, beating Swedish team Simon Aspelin and Thomas Johansson. In 2014 Wawrinka was part of the Swiss National Team, winning the Davis Cup for the first time. His best singles ranking to date is World No. 3, achieved for the first time on 27 January 2014. <section begin=""singles-perf"" /> ""Current through the 2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters."" <section end=""singles-perf"" /> Held as Hamburg Masters until 2008, Madrid Masters (clay) 2009–present.<br> Held as Madrid Masters (hardcourt) until 2008, and Shanghai Masters 2009–present."
"in straight sets, including 2 finals, one of which is a Masters 1000 final at Madrid in 2013. However, since Wawrinka's breakthrough season in 2013 the head to head has been slightly more even (3–5) from 2014 onward. Wawrinka scored his first win against Nadal in their first Grand Slam final, the 2014 Australian Open final in 4 sets, denying Nadal's double career slam. It was also the only match between the pair not resulting in a straight set win for either player. Nadal won their second Grand Slam final, at the 2017 French Open. Wawrinka was born in Switzerland"
"seed Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland. Cipolla took the match to 5 sets by taking a shock two set lead, however his Swiss opponent still had enough to come from behind and take the match, emerging victorious 5–7, 6–7, 6–4, 6–0, 6–4. ""Current till 2013 Australian Open. Flavio Cipolla Flavio Cipolla (born 20 October 1983) is a professional tennis player on the ATP Tour from Italy. He reached the second round at the French Open of 2007, where he lost to Rafael Nadal. He reached the 3rd round of the 2008 US Open. His career high rank is No. 70, achieved"
"56 who completed tertiary schooling, 51.8% were Swiss men, 37.5% were Swiss women. , there was one student in Saint-Barthélemy who came from another municipality, while 104 residents attended schools outside the municipality. It is the residence of the tennis player Stanislas Wawrinka, who won a gold medal in men's doubles, partnering with Roger Federer at the 2008 Olympics and won the 2014 Australian Open title in 2014, and Roland Garros, the French Open title in 2015, and the US Open in 2016, winning in four sets over the number one seeded player, Novak Djokovic. The football manager and former"
"Stanislas Wawrinka) lost in the first round of the French Open. Also, for the first time at any Grand Slam event in the Open era, the top three women's seeds (Williams, Li, and Agnieszka Radwańska) all failed to reach the fourth round. The 2014 French Open is the 113th edition of the French Open and is being held at Stade Roland Garros in Paris. The tournament is an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is part of the 2014 ATP World Tour and the 2014 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consists of"
"played in over 53 countries all around the world. Italy Spain Portugal France United Kingdom Belgium Germany Hungary Latvia Estonia Lithuania Slovenia Poland Ukraine Bulgaria Holland Austria Finland Denmark Switzerland Czech Republic Belarus Romania Egypt Iran Tunisia Greece Israel Cyprus South Africa Morocco Argentina Chile Peru Brazil Japan Mauritius Puerto Rico Mexico Venezuela Dominican Republic Colombia El Salvador Russia China Australia India Malaysia Singapore United States Canada United Arab Emirates Thailand And many more joining by the day. Beach tennis arrived in Brazil on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro around 2008, and the sport has now dominated about 1/3"
"the Swiss National Team. Wawrinka lost his first match, in the first round, against Victor Hănescu in a dead rubber. Switzerland won the tie 3–2 against Romania and progressed into the World Group quarterfinals. He finished the year ranked No. 162 in the world rankings. Wawrinka had his Grand Slam debut at the French Open. He won against 22nd seed and Olympic Gold Medalist Nicolás Massú in the first round, in four sets. In the second round, Wawrinka came from 2 sets down to defeat James Blake. His run ended in the third round losing in four sets, to the"
"took the final two spots. Stanislas Wawrinka is having his best year on the ATP Tour to date, reaching a career high ranking of number 8 in the world. He began the year with a fourth round showing at the Australian Open, losing in a 5 set thriller against Novak Djokovic losing 12-10 in the fifth, in a match that lasted over five hours. He also reached his first slam semifinal at the US Open defeating defending champion Andy Murray in the quarterfinals in straight sets, before losing to world no. 1 Djokovic in a tightly contested 5 setter despite"
"as Stan Wawrinka in 2014 in the Madrid Open and Federer in Rome. His mental game has also been praised, especially his tie-break win percentage. Thiem began dating fellow tennis player, Kristina Mladenovic, in mid 2017. They publicly confirmed their relationship in May 2018. ""Current through the 2018 ATP Finals."" <section begin=""singles-perf"" /> Dominic Thiem Dominic Thiem (; born 3 September 1993) is an Austrian professional tennis player who has a career-high ATP ranking of world No. 4, which he first achieved on 6 November 2017. He has won eleven singles titles on the ATP Tour. In 2018, Thiem reached"
"top two seeds until Stanislas Wawrinka won the Australian Open in 2014. He continued his top clay court player reputation by reaching finals at Milan (his first final on Carpet), Barcelona, Madrid, and Palermo, while capturing an additional 4 titles at Monte Carlo (his 2nd ATP Masters 1000 title in singles), Gstaad, Prague, and Bordeaux (his 1st hard court title) besides Roland Garros. He finished the year ranked World No. 4. In 1994 Bruguera maintained his dominance on clay and successfully defended his title at the French Open while only dropping 2 sets in the entire tournament, defeating, once again,"
"saw a couple of withdrawals; The women's side saw the draw without the top two rank players with World no. 2 Dinara Safina withdrawing with a recurring back problem and world no. 1 Serena Williams with sister Venus Williams continue their boycott from the tournament since Serena won the event in 2001. The men's side saw the withdrawals of Tommy Haas and Lleyton Hewitt due to hip surgeries. Juan Martín del Potro also withdrew due to a right wrist injury and Fernando González withdrew to aid his country Chile after an earthquake. Stanislas Wawrinka also withdrew due to the birth"
"sets. Stan Warinka retained his title at Geneva Open At the French Open Wawrinka, the 2015 champion, reached the final round but lost to Rafael Nadal 6-2, 6-3, 6-1. Nadal won a record 10th Roland Garros title on his favoured clay surface, his first Grand Slam victory since the 2014 French Open. This table chronicles all the matches of Stan Wawrinka in 2017, including walkovers (W/O) which the ATP does not count as wins. They are marked ND for non-decision or no decision. Stan Wawrinka had a match win-loss record in the 2017 season. His record against players who were"
"Guillermo García López Guillermo García López (, born 4 June 1983) is a professional tennis player from Spain. He has won five singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 23 in February 2011. , he has collected thirteen wins over top-10 players, including world No. 1 Rafael Nadal in 2010, world No. 3 Stan Wawrinka in 2014 and world No. 4 Andy Murray in 2012. He is good friends with fellow Spanish tennis player Juan Carlos Ferrero, and both train at the JC Ferrero Equelite Tennis Academy in Villena, Spain. On 23 November 2009, García López"
"in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In 2016, Switzerland faced Italy abroad for the first round, without Federer and Wawrinka. The captain called Laaksonen, Chiudinelli, Bossel and a newcomer from Geneva, Antoine Bellier. Switzerland lost 5-0. Chiudinelli and Wawrinka were not called for the play-off in Uzbekistan, while Federer was taking a long break to recover from a knee injury, so that Switzerland had to play again with a B team, led by Laaksonen and Bellier. The tie was played on a clay court in Tashkent. Switzerland won 3-2 and confirmed its spot in the World Group. In"
"54 Major titles (with Federer a record 20, Nadal 17, Djokovic 14, and Murray 3). The only other active players who have a Major title to their name are Juan Martín del Potro (2009 US Open), Stan Wawrinka (2014 Australian Open, 2015 French Open, 2016 US Open) and Marin Čilić (2014 US Open). Starting with the 2005 Wimbledon Championships, their combined record at Grand Slam tournaments against everyone else is 707–62. Moreover, only six times has a player outside the group beaten two of them in the same Grand Slam tournament (Safin at the 2005 Australian Open, Tsonga at the"
"was the Open 13 in Marseille, France. He retired during his first match, trailing Ilya Ivashka by one set, at 1–1 during the second set because of his knee injury. After missing almost three months due to his injury, Wawrinka returned in the 2018 Italian Open but lost in the first round to Steve Johnson in straight sets. He then played at the 2018 Geneva Open where he was the two-time defending champion but his title defense ended in a straight set's defeat to Márton Fucsovics in the quarterfinals. In the 2018 French Open, he was seeded 23rd, but lost"
"No.3 and current US Open title holder Stan Wawrinka winning 7–6, 6–3. In the second round he overcame Marcel Granollers, also in straight sets, reaching yet another quarterfinal, and his first on ATP World Tour 500 level. He was there defeated by Robin Haase in their third career meeting, worsening head-to-head record to 2–1. Thanks to points won in Dubai, Džumhur has broken into the Top 70 for the first time, achieving singles ranking of 67 on 6 March. Damir's first ever win in Indian Wells, over Ryan Harrison at world's second biggest outdoor tennis stadium in the opening round"
"Wawrinka qualified for the event. Stan Wawrinka started his season at the Chennai Open where he was the two-time defending champion successfully defended his title over Borna Ćorić. He then played in the Australian Open, in the fourth round he played big serving Canadian and 13th seed Milos Raonic, despite pushing it to a fifth set he was unable to overcome the Canadian and lost. Wawrinka then played in the Open 13, he was received an upset loss in the quarterfinals to Benoît Paire. Wawrinka then played in the Dubai Tennis Championships and won the title over surprise finalist Marcos"
"to have been represented more than once. Seven of the winners were born in the United Kingdom, and the other winners were born in Brazil, former Czechoslovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United States. Czechoslovak-born tennis player Martina Navratilova was the first woman to have won the award. The only recipient of the award on multiple occasions is Ballesteros who won in 1997 and again in 2009, for his contribution to golf winning ""the Open three times, the Masters twice as well as playing an inspirational role in the Ryder Cup"". The most recent winner, in 2018, was American tennis player"
"to enter the quarterfinals of the Mercedes Cup. ""Current through the 2018 Generali Open Kitzbühel."" Guillermo García López Guillermo García López (, born 4 June 1983) is a professional tennis player from Spain. He has won five singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 23 in February 2011. , he has collected thirteen wins over top-10 players, including world No. 1 Rafael Nadal in 2010, world No. 3 Stan Wawrinka in 2014 and world No. 4 Andy Murray in 2012. He is good friends with fellow Spanish tennis player Juan Carlos Ferrero, and both train at"
"tournament in the world. Geneva Open Challenger The Geneva Open Challenger is a tennis tournament held in Geneva, Switzerland since 1988. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour. Previously played on outdoor clay courts, it has been played indoors on hard GreenSet courts since 2011, at Sport Center of the Queue d'Arve. Originally, it was held at the Drizia-Miremont Tennis Club. Two-time Swiss champion Stanislas Wawrinka would later enter the world top 10 in the ATP rankings in 2008. The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) awarded the Jim McManus Challenger Award to the tournament in 2013. This award"
"the Davis Cup final for only the second time in the country's history, Wawrinka winning his singles and the doubles rubbers. However, Wawrinka suffered a three match losing streak, losing his first matches at the Asian swing and Swiss Indoors Basel, he snapped the losing streak at the BNP Paribas Masters defeating Dominic Thiem but lost in the next round. This is the second time Wawrinka has qualified for the ATP World Tour Finals, having made his maiden appearance in 2013. On 18 October, Marin Čilić became the fifth player to qualify. Marin Čilić had a difficult start to the"
"Chiudinelli and Stanislas Wawrinka in the first round of the 2013 Davis Cup 6–4, 5–7, 6–4, 6–7, 24–22. The match was played on 2 February 2013, lasting 7 hours, 2 minutes. It was the second longest ATP match ever (singles and doubles combined). Berdych was born in Valašské Meziříčí, Moravia, Czechoslovakia (the Czech Republic since 1993) to Hana Berdychová and Martin Berdych. Berdych started playing tennis when he was five at the tennis centre in his hometown and birthplace of Valašské Meziříčí. His father, Martin, was a train engineer and a very good tennis player while his mother, Hana, is"
"team would stay the same and she would spend the off season looking for a new coach. On 6 December 2017, Konta announced she was hiring Michael Joyce for the 2018 season. On 10 October 2018, Konta announced that she had split with Joyce. . She then commenced a trial period with Dimitri Zavialoff, a former coach of Stanislas Wawrinka. Johanna Konta Johanna Konta (born 17 May 1991) is a British professional tennis player who represented Australia until 2012. She has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 11 singles and four doubles titles on the"
"and Stanislas Wawrinka, who went on to win the men's doubles gold medal. Later in 2008, with Cara Black, he won the 2008 US Open mixed double title. In 2009, he won the French Open and US Open Men's doubles titles with Lukáš Dlouhý and was the runner-up in mixed doubles at the US Open. He began the 2010 season in good form, again winning the Australian Open mixed doubles title with Cara Black. This was the pair's third consecutive Grand Slam final and the fourth overall Paes and Radek Štěpánek's journey at Wimbledon championship 2012 came to an end"
"the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Hingis retired after the 2017 WTA Finals while ranked world No. 1. Widely considered an all-time tennis great, Hingis was ranked by ""Tennis"" magazine in 2005 as the 8th-greatest female player of the preceding 40 years. She was named one of the ""30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future"" by ""TIME"" in June 2011. In 2013, Hingis was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and was appointed two years later the organization's first ever Global Ambassador. Hingis was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (now in Slovakia) as Martina Hingisová,"
"Games due to his knee injury problems sustained from the Madrid Open, leaving Wawrinka as the lone male player. The following day, Bencic joined him as one of the tennis players to be pulled out from the Games, citing a wrist injury sustained from the Wimbledon Championships. Therefore, Bacsinszky replaced Bencic in the women's doubles with Hingis, and her partnering with Golubic was undone. Wawrinka was the last player to withdraw from the Games due to a back injury, leaving Switzerland with only females in the tennis team for the first time. Switzerland has qualified a total of four triathletes"
"at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. The Indian Wells Masters, Miami Masters and Cincinnati Masters are part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and the former WTA Tier I (currently Premier Mandatory and Premier 5). The United States has had considerable success in tennis for many years, with players such as Don Budge, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Jimmy Connors (8 major singles titles), John McEnroe (7 major singles titles), Andre Agassi (8 major singles titles) and Pete Sampras (14 major singles titles), and Ricardo Alonso González (14 major singles titles) dominating their"
"2015 Stan Wawrinka tennis season The 2015 Stan Wawrinka tennis season began at the Chennai Open, where he won the title for the third time in his career. This was followed by an unsuccessful defense of his title at the Australian Open, where he lost in the semi-finals to eventual champion Novak Djokovic in five sets. A few months later, after a relatively unsuccessful clay season, Stan won his second major title at the French Open, defeating Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic in the process. Wawrinka opened his season for the seventh consecutive year in Chennai, where he was the"
"heavily criticized in Switzerland. The president of Swiss Tennis even stated that he would never tolerate Marti's presence on the team again and that he would prefer to play in the continental zone with serious people, than in the World Group with Marti. Michael Lammer announced his retirement after the Belgium tie. The Swiss team secured its spot in the World Group by winning the play-off game against the Netherlands 4-1 in Geneva. Both Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka played the tie. They both needed to play one Davis Cup tie during the year in order to guarantee a spot"
"He skipped many ties over the years but often competed in the World Group Playoffs in order for Switzerland to maintain their place in the top division. The emergence of countryman Stanislas Wawrinka as a Grand Slam singles champion in 2014 renewed hope for Federer in his Davis Cup quest, and the pair both committed to playing each tie that year. Their commitment paid off as wins over Serbia, Kazakhstan and Italy allowed the Swiss team to advance to the 2014 Davis Cup Final. Leading into the final, Federer was suffering from a back injury that threw serious doubt over"